Talking heads and their public are like children: they want to be
told bed time stories, so that their tired little minds can go to
sleep.

They cannot handle culture and logic, they are not trained for it.
All what appeals to them is what would appeal a little children talking
to each other, little anecdotes with a strong imaginary component.

As the Roman republic went down, culture and art went down, and they
went down ahead of the military and economic capabilities. Rome became
idiotic first, and then was progressively completely incapacitated.

Why did Rome become idiotic? Because the Roman republic had been
kidnapped by the hyper rich "Senatorial" class. The hyper rich
tolerated only dummies. During the transition to idiocy, those who
refused to cooperate were killed. The philosopher and Consul Cicero,
saw the hands he was writing with chopped off, and nailed to the Senate
door. And that is not an imaginary anecdote a la Reagan. It was meant
to impress those too willing to write down smart thoughts.

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Finally the plutocracy mixed up with the theocrats, and any
knowledge or thinking was viewed as an insult to God. This episode is
called the Dark Ages. But it started with the rise of the stupid, paid
to reign by the hyper rich.

This is exactly what is going in the media today. The venality and
stupidity of the "debate" on health care is deliberate, it is made to
increase stupidity, it teaches stupidity. Wisely, Obama is gambling
that he can defeat the stupidity head on, by rising the mental level.
If he fails the USA will keep on collapsing mentally.